Please join us October 22nd @ 6-8pm as we take a peek behind the doors of the physical archive in Richmond, California. REGISTER NOW. Celebrate with the Internet Archive on October 23rd for Escaping the Memory Hole, as we highlight the vital role of libraries in preserving our shared digital culture.
Celebrate with the Internet Archive as we highlight the vital role of libraries in preserving our shared digital culture. Register to join us IN-PERSON or ONLINE. Celebrate the evening before with Doors Open on October 22, the behind-the-scenes tour of the Physical Archive.
Swilk, a queer Oakland-based weaver and installation artist, invites the community to the Internet Archive for a special show: an immersive art exhibit that breathes life into historic HIV artifacts. The piece, titled When you’re looking for something, it’s important to know who was in love, invites the public to connect the modern world to a […]
Join us for a book talk with legal scholar JAMES BOYLE, discussing his book THE LINE: AI and the Future of Personhood, in conversation with KATE DARLING of the MIT Media Lab. REGISTER NOW!
Join us for a roundtable discussion with LUCA MESSARRA, CHRIS FREELAND and JULIYA ZISKINA, the authors & editors of VANISHING CULTURE: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. READ the report. REGISTER for the discussion.
For our sixth monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of MEET JOHN DOE(1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. Meet John Doe may be Frank Capra’s most pessimistic film. The film serves as a fable about the dangers of homegrown fascism and the potential for ordinary people to resist oppressive forces, […]
Buy Tickets This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO (the 19th!) casts an archival gaze on the lives of San Franciscans and Bay residents. Drawn from over 400 newly scanned archival films plus a few old favorites, this year’s film revels in the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and celebration, replaying known and […]
On January 1, 2025, creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US. Celebrate with us online on January 22nd! REGISTER NOW
Please join us at our headquarters in San Francisco for a Celebration of the Public Domain! This year, we’re honoring 1929 — the year of the very first Academy Awards, held at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA. Event Recording: https://archive.org/details/public-domain-day-2025-in-person-event-at-internet-archive-headquarters
We invite you to Fahrenheit 2451 an exciting two-day academic conference on Friday, January 31st, and Saturday, February 1st at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, California. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury imagines a “living library” where people memorize classic books to preserve them from the flames. From Tolkien’s and C.S. Lewis’s mythologies to the […]
Ideas Worth Saving is hosting an in-person film clip viewing and a panel discussion on Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st. The film clips and a panel discussion themes will be The True Origins of Star Wars on Friday, and The Tolkien You Never Knew on Sunday. We encourage you to attend in costume […]
For our seventh monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of His Girl Friday (1940), starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The film can be watched on the Internet Archive Here. Simone Elias' introduction to the film can be watched on the Internet Archive Here. Join us for this legendary screwball film, […]
